Crash Into Mr Xcitement

July 22, 2007 3:45 PM

Mashup I made for fun, had laying around on my hard drive, and remembered while reading this thread. The tracks are "Crash" from Gwen Stefani's "Love. Angel. Music. Baby." (written by her and Tony Kanal) and "Mr. Xcitement" from They Might Be Giant's "Mink Car" (and featuring Mike Doughty on vocals.)
What I like about it is that neither track is an acapella track, and that both singers (like both music tracks) are overlapping throughout, but it still works -- other than a tempo (but *not* pitch) change to speed up "Crash" and a few measure movements/cuts, no other changes were necessary.
Note that release of the TMBG/Doughty track predates the Stefani track, and that I cut off the spoken word intro and painfully long musical ending of the TMBG track (which the Stefani track did not overlap) to save you all download time.

That's actually the beauty of this one; no mixing was required, nor was it necessary to obtain an acapella track for one of the songs. They were already in the same key, about the same length, and the overlapping vocals/breaks/whatnot lined up almost perfectly; I just needed to speed up "Crash" a bit and extend/cut a measure here and there to keep 'em sync'd.

So the only inspired thing I did here was listen to "Crash" and immediately think "That sounds exactly like Mr Xcitement." I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)posted by davejay at 2:31 PM on
July 24, 2007

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